A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly
crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa
from the celebrated author of RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL. The Dominican
playboy Porfirio Rubirosa died at 8:00 am on July 5, 1965, when he
smashed his Ferrari into a tree in Paris. He was 56 years old and
on his way home to his 28-year-old fifth wife, Odile Rodin, after a
night's debauch in celebration of a victorious polo match. In the
previous four decades, Rubirosa had on four separate occasions
married one of the wealthiest women in the world, and had slept
with hundreds of other women including Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa
Gabor, Ava Gardner, and Eva Peron. He had worked as aide-de-camp to
one of the most vicious fascists the century ever knew. He had
served as an ambassador to France, Germany, Belgium, Italy,
Argentina and Vichy. He had been a jewel thief, a forger, a
shipping magnate, a treasure hunter. He had held his own with the
world's most powerful and notorious men including John F. Kennedy,
Josef Goebbels and Juan Peron. He ran comfortably celebrity
circles, counting among his friends Frank Sinatra, Ted Kennedy,
David Niven, Sammy Davis Jr., and fellow playboy Aly Khan. He lived
for the moment and, at his death, faded without a legacy: no
children, no fortune, no entity - financial, cultural, even
architectural - that bore his name. There will never be anyone else
like Porfiro Rubirosa. Indeed, the really amazing thing is that
there ever was. Shawn Levy - celebrated author of RAT PACK
CONFIDENTIAL, and READY, STEADY, GO - has been given unique access
to primary material including FBI and CIA files in his search for
the last playboy.
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